The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-06-06
"BY THE GRACE OF COD
BY "rHE vAcABoND.o

u"' supplemented by THE Will of the
Feople," as expressed at the ballot
boxes in 1874, after the death of King
Lunalllo, last of the royal line of Ka,
mehameha the Great, who founded his
dynasty some time in the early years of
this century. Kamebameha, like Tina.
kambau, ex King Of Fiji, became sole
monarch by killing and eating most of
MS contemporaries in that line of
business in the Hawaiian Islands Not
that cannibalism was as rampant in
Hawaii as in Viii, but it was the ancient
practice to eat the hearts and livers of
prisoners as well as to offer human sac.
rlhces to the god and goddesses who
we're supposed to govern the powers of
nature and to testify their anger by
causing eruptions of the great volca.
noes for which these islands are cele.
brated, kilauea being the largest burn
ing mountain in the world. The super
stition is not yet extinct among the
modern Hawaiians BY the last San
Francisco mail boat we have news that
the Princess Likelike, sister of His
Majesty Of Hawaii, has starved herself
to death, offering herself voluntary
sacrifice to the goddess whose presum-
ed anger produced the recent outbreak
of new crater on the island OF
Mauna Loa. (Hawaii) In that charm
ing book Of fanoiful fiction "The Phan-
tom City" Mr. Westall has utilized this
ancient superstition of Hawaii. In
"Allan Quatermain," now running in
the Saturday numbers Of The Age, Mr..
Rider Haggard is following the lines Of
"The Phantom City"
King Kalakaua reigns over a popula.
ton Of some $4,000, included in which
are some thousands Of Chinese and
coolies Of various races, and some hun
dreds of Europeans. The native Ha-
waiian does not like work. With these
simple people to love is enough.
"Aloha !" "My love to YOU" is the
common salutation of the people. If
you ride around Honolulu you will
meet scores of maids and matrons on
horseback, who do not patronize the
side saddle, and who with their flowing
robes, long black hair and garlands OF
sweet smelling flowers circling their
necks and brows, are as pictur-
esque figures as you will find in the
world. You take off your hat.
"AlohaP they cry, and kiss their hands
laughingly or course, "Aloha" all
depends upon the way you say it. Sus-
ceptible young Englishmen think Ha-
waii very paradise. Love and flowers
flourish in the kingdom Of Kalakaua
There is no word in the language for
female virtue; il Is not needed, as the
article itself is unknown. But the ser
pent is here in the form Of leprosy
With the exception Of that in the Phil
ippines, the largest leper settlement in
the world is on the island Of Moloka,
one Of the Hawaiian group, This, for
all time, will be celebrated as the scene
of a great sacrifice, one of the few
Costa Christi Of modern days. For
over a dozen years a young French
priest, Father Damiens, has been set
tied here, having voluntarily cut himself
off from all health in mankind, and
severed from everything which could
make existence endurable, passing his
time in the endeavor to bring some
surcease of sorrow to the poor wretches
whose life Of loathsome corruption is
living death. One Of the chapters in
my dear friend Charles Warren Stod-
dard's "South Sea Idylls" deals with
this leper settlement. If any one will
read that he will see what Father Da-
miens has condemned himself to. II
"the Grace Of God" is manifest any
where in Hawaii, il is in this act.
But Kalakaua Del G,aha is king,
and as such is presumed by some to
have hedging Of divinity. And it has
been mooted amongst the Executive
of our forthcoming Continental Exhibi-
ton that His Majesty Of Hawaii shall
receive an invitation to graciously
honor us with his presence thereat.
Failing to obtain the patronage Of a
king IN Posse, it is wished to have one
in ssse, even although he should be
slightly off color. There is no doubt
that the Prince Of Wales would have
been a great "draw" here, The 'eccen'
tricities' Of his brother, the Duke, are
forgotten. There is new generation
Of the First Families anxious to bask
in the sunshine of royal smile, and
who would always bear in mind the
motto, "the king Chat is to be) can do
no wrong" But in one respect Kala-
kaua would be a better importation
than His Royal Highness the Heir
Apparent. The King Of Hawaii can
speak much better English than the
future king of Great Britain, who pro-
nounces our language exactly like a
worthy tObacconist Of foreign extrac-
ton whose store in Swanston street
was so advertised by Mr., George
Augustus Sala. In England recently,
when / heard the Prince speak on
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